When I mess about trying to decide where to put the tinest and most insignificant of flat back gems I call it Fiddle Farting, hence the name of the blog!!!

SORRY.....

OLD TEMPLATES AND FILES

I am sorry but I can no longer send out any templates, poems etc. that I may have previously offered in the past, the files were lost when my last computer crashed and I have chosen not to remake any of them them.

Sunday, 22 August 2010

HobbyCraft Foam Leaf Wreath

When I went to HobbyCraft with Lisa on Thursday I made an impulse buy, something I wouldn’t usually look at, but sort of inspired me, a packet of self adhesive foam leaves for £1.99. I took them, and put them back, I took them and put them back until I finally put them in my basket, Lisa looked at me as if I had gone mad.

But I’m glad I did because I made this autumn wreath. I used an old bracelet as the base and tied a thin black gingham on to it before I stuck on the leaves.

I found out, by trial and error, that I should leave the paper on the adhesive side of the green leaves for the first layer, and glue them directly onto the ring/bracelet .........

....... but remove it when adding the yellow and red leaves.

I thought it was “lacking” something when I had finished the layering and so went through all my boxes looking for some wooden ladybirds, I was thrilled when they looked right and as I saw them in my minds eye.

Then, naturally I needed to add a few clear flat backed gems to look like dew!

The finishing touch is a larger ladybird glued at the top of the ribbon.

I was thinking the wreath might look nice attached to a Harvest Festival Basket.